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Re: State of developers-reference



On Wed,09.Sep.09, 06:57:10, Christian Perrier wrote:
> As a start:
> 
> - making it clearer in the i18n part that we're talking *first* about
> i18n/l10n of *Debian material*, that is everything under debian/
> (mostly debconf) as well as everything in Debian *native* packages
> (programs, documentation, etc.)
> 
> - encourage the use of po4a for documentation i18n. Including a good
> example for manpages could be great
> 
> - document the hard suggestion to get original texts reviewed on
> debian-l10n-english. It's already in the part about debconf (IIRC) but
> could be made more visible
> 
> - (more debatable) give a recommendation to give preferences to
> American English in documents as a matter of consistency
> 
> - document the call for translations process

That looks like a good start. Would it make sense to file whishlist bugs 
against the dev-ref about these (maybe also with a usertag like 'i18n', 
user debian-i18n@l.d.o)? I might also start cooking some patches, at 
least for the parts I have enough knowledge.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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